Concepts of Airspace Structures and System Analysis for UAS Traffic flows for Urban Areas

摘要

This paper addresses a system centric approach for design and analysis of airspace use in urban unmanned aerial vehicle (UAS) traffic flow control. The approach is based on numerical traffic simulations with a behavioral model of UASs for estimating characteristics of the future UAS air traffic in urban areas and performances of airspace structures. A concept on urban UAS traffic flow control is proposed with various airspace structural designs of different levels of freedom in flight, and a microscopic traffic model of UASs in one of the designs is developed. Fundamental diagrams of simple UAS traffic are obtained and performances of basic airspace structures are compared by using the traffic simulations.